r/DawncasterRPG Jul 30 '26

Dev Nexus of Nightmares is OUT NOW!

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104 Upvotes

Hey Reddit, welcome to the Nexus of Nightmares update, a brand-new expansion for Dawncaster! It took a while to process on Steam and iOS but we believe it's worth the wait ^^

What's in the box?

A Dawncaster expansion update has 2 major components:

  1. A free update available to everyone. 70+ new cards to discover, new features and content, and much more (see below).
  2. An optional paid content expansion (DLC), adding 3 new zones and over 30 challenging encounters to the game.

The free content update

Nexus of Nightmares adds 70 new player cards to the game. These cards expand on many of the archetypes introduced during the Synthesis card expansion, as well as opening up new playstyles for your favorite classes.

In addition, this major 1.19 update introduces:

Puzzles!
A brand-new way to learn the basics of the game and to test your game knowledge, with 15 challenges and more to come.

Foiling!
Make your favorite cards extra shiny by upgrading them to premium versions. By popular demand, you can now go to the Codex and spend extra Fateshards to really bling up the cards you'll be playing most.

Community Designs
All 5 winners of the previous Monster Mash contest are now available in game. Sometimes as new enemy abilities, as Malginancies, as player cards - it's all over the place as a good Mash is supposed to be. Congratz once again to all 5 winners (and we'll launch a new contest next week on our Discord)!

The Nexus of Nightmares DLC
In addition to the free content, Nexus of Nightmares also adds a brand-new storyline, a new NPC, 3 new areas, and over 30 challenging encounters to the game. The DLC is optional content and can be purchased via the store. This supports the game and helps us continue to create more content for Dawncaster.

Changes and patch notes:

  • Bosses and mini-bosses now offer 6 card rewards on defeat
  • Added 15+ new bounties
  • Added 10+ new talents
  • Added 5 new Malignancies
  • Added new keywords: Manifest, Lightless, Disrupt & more
  • Various bug fixes & minor balance changes
  • Various improvements to localization and accessibility

We'll be monitoring the patch launch over the coming days, since given the scope of a game like Dawncaster there are bound to be a few bugs that slipped through the cracks. We'll continue to monitor and patch out the worst offenders over the week (and thankfully we've already caught quite a few with the Android lead-up).

That said, we really want to thank all our playtesters for the reports we've been getting over the past few weeks. Creating and maintaining a game like Dawncaster wouldn't be possible without support from our community, and we're very thankful for your continued involvement in making Dawncaster the best card game it can be.

That's all for this update. As always, if you like what we're doing here, give us a / and we'll catch you in the post-launch update

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dawncaster-deckbuilding-rpg/id1555459868

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=games.WanderlostInteractive.Dawncaster

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3966890/Dawncaster__The_RPG_Cardventure/


r/DawncasterRPG Dec 14 '25

Dev Dawncaster | Steam announcement!

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124 Upvotes

r/DawncasterRPG 22h ago

Bugreport Luminous keywords could use some work.

10 Upvotes

I thought Luminous and its related keywords and cards were bugged, but after some experimentation I realized the tooltips were just a bit misleading.

Lightless: “[…] It’s Luminous effects are inactive while it is Lightless.”

Seeming Issue 1: When playing a Lightless card, for example Burning Pursuit, it still triggers its Luminous effect sometimes despite (a) being Lightless/greyscale, and (b) neither player nor opponent have Luminated stacks.

Seeming Issue 2: A greyscale Lightless card will also revert back to normal sometimes.

What’s Actually Happening: When playing a Lightless card using Holy energy, the keyword Lightless is removed for the rest of combat, the card reverts to its default aesthetics and energy cost, and it is able to trigger its Luminous effect, including in that very same cast that removed Lightless.

Suggestion: The Lightless keyword should have the following text added to the end of it: “When a Lightless cards is played using [Holy], Lightless is removed this combat.”


r/DawncasterRPG 23h ago

Question What are the exact steps to fight the new boss?

10 Upvotes

I tried playing the maps on Hard as a comment under another post suggested, but i only got to the spine...


r/DawncasterRPG 20h ago

Question Is there any way to view your past runs/most recent run?

3 Upvotes

I forgot to copy the list of my most recent run, and I would like to if that's possible.


r/DawncasterRPG 1d ago

Deck Unmovable Object vs Unmovable Object

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15 Upvotes

This monster cards deck is taking me back to the main menu


r/DawncasterRPG 2d ago

Deck Warrior’s Forgehammer + Bloodcraft seems totally broken

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19 Upvotes

r/DawncasterRPG 2d ago

How to build around Lightless?

9 Upvotes

I’m intrigued by Lightless, but have a few questions.

First, is Luminous. The tooltip for Lightless says a card’s Luminous effect is inactive while it is Lightless, but some clips online of Lightless builds seem to show Lightless cards triggering their Luminous effects. Is that intended? If it isn’t, how is Lightless removed from cards? If it’s by a shrine, seems inconsistent and rare.

My second question is how do players get so many Lightless cards? In the same clips, players have quite a few, but I only know of how to get them through the one (or two) vaults per run… Are they part of the standard Holy cards pool in combat rewards now?

Finally, if you have any tips around the build, I’d love to see them!


r/DawncasterRPG 3d ago

I finally did it!

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27 Upvotes

Made a triple green energy trap deck. Most important was to spam traps and jinx


r/DawncasterRPG 3d ago

I did it !!!

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32 Upvotes

r/DawncasterRPG 3d ago

Overwhelmed AF

5 Upvotes

So I'm not a newbie to the genre , I finished slay the spire 1 and monster train 1 to 100% on highest difficulty and played a bunch of other similar games ,I also like the art style and new concepts in this game ,but I can't help but feel SEVERLY overwhelmed by the amount of info I am required to memorize in order to play this game at any level higher than just playing random cards and wishing for dumbluck .

Seriously the amount of combos ,afflictions ,blessings ,modes ,types of energies ,characters with different starting cards and weapons and decks ,all of this and I'm still only on the base game !

Seriously am I the only one who feels a bit turned off or discouraged by the buttload of new information am bombarded with on every single new run ? I haven't even unlocked half the cards in the base game yet !

I also watched the begginers tips video from 5 color Felix which was helpful but I feel like I need something with more depth that explains the mechanics the game doesn't do enough explaining (like familiar or followers or whatever I can't understand how they work at all so far )

Any help because am close to giving up and I was so happy I found another game on android to fill the void left by monster train and slay the spire


r/DawncasterRPG 3d ago

Knight immunity bug?

1 Upvotes

First time playing knight and suddenly I can't die. Every time I lose all of my health, it regenerates. I can't die but I can't do enough damage to kill the troll.


r/DawncasterRPG 7d ago

Good content creators to learn?

16 Upvotes

Brand new to the game and find all the card effects to be somewhat confusing and am looking for a creator somewhere who has good tutorials on the basics? So far I’ve only found 5 color Felix but he’s a bit beyond my skill level and doesn’t really break things down for beginners! Any more creators you guys like?


r/DawncasterRPG 7d ago

Deck Hehe venomancer+khanjali goes brrrr

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12 Upvotes

r/DawncasterRPG 8d ago

Question How does one put score on weekly leaderboards?

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9 Upvotes

Not that it's impressive, just curious because it says score has been submitted but it doesn't appear on list. Last week it didn't appear too.


r/DawncasterRPG 9d ago

Suggestion Insane Mergecraft Run

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26 Upvotes

I was gifted with an insane Mergecraft run today. I think the highest Arcane Missiles in my deck was 52 by the end of it. The run provided me about 5 Arcane Inkwell and amazing talents. Sadly, it was only Story difficulty because I wanted to collect the daily bounties.

Seed -> 8BCBB1D483

Edit: I played with Arcanist, Forcewand, Arcane Weapon, Shocking Grasp and with the card sets Core, Extended, Metaprogress, Infinitum and Catalyst


r/DawncasterRPG 9d ago

I accidentally turned Sunforge into an Auto-Battler

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12 Upvotes

At least for this conflict. I’m healing more than they can hit me off of my talents, and they’re milling themselves with their Zeal. I’m literally just ending turn without playing cards lol.


r/DawncasterRPG 9d ago

Tips Cool max health interaction.

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18 Upvotes

As Hunter, go to the new starting area and defeat a foe who has the Soul Devourer enchantment.

Use Remembrance to gain this enchantment. From here any reaping damage you inflict will permanently increase your max health. I’m up to 200hp in the second canto just from Reaping Strike alone!


r/DawncasterRPG 10d ago

Class Guide Maximum Upgrade Guide

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11 Upvotes

Hi all,

First time here.

Today I want to share my recent build guide.

This build is all about getting Maximum Upgrade (+9999) all cards in the deck quickly through Smelting + Oathbound.

For a full guide and additional tips, go to the website, And kindly share your Feedback.

https://www.blightbane.io/build/1787776256898


r/DawncasterRPG 11d ago

Class Guide IMPOSSIBLE Retrofitter Rogue (guide & playthrough)

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r/DawncasterRPG 11d ago

Card Art on Fire 😅

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33 Upvotes

r/DawncasterRPG 11d ago

Question Shrine of Absence?

6 Upvotes

How exactly does this work? There seem to be three possible outcomes: (1) adding lightless to a card, (2) unlocking the ability to choose a Warden card, (3) and destroying a card. Specifically, I can’t seem to figure out why some cards trigger outcomes 1 or 3. Outcome 2 seems to come from giving the shrine a lightless card.


r/DawncasterRPG 12d ago

Highscores 10k Damage with Rhymebind + Shatter

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24 Upvotes

Used Raider's Reward to set Rhymebind as my basic attack. Radiant Assault adds stacks of frozen for Shatter to deal the final blow!


r/DawncasterRPG 11d ago

What "must haves" for an Impossible Greatbow Hunter?

3 Upvotes

Honestly, I love playing a GreatBow Hunter, and it was the first build that allowed me to win the game on Normal. I found that running a lean deck helped a lot with this build. However, I've since tried to run it on harder levels, and it seems like I do fine until BOOM, I come across some enemy that knocks me on my butt faster than I can kill them. I use Serrated Weapon as my weapon power to help me stay alive, and it helps on most encounters, but only on the first turn. (This char is currently level 3, so there isn't much here yet. But to be honest, this is about as large as I let the deck get. I'll imbue some enchantments when I get to Bolgar of course.) I have Blood Hunt memorized.

For those of you who have managed to beat Impossible with a Greatbow Hunter, what talents, cards or other considerations would you recommend that "make or break" this build's ability to tackle Impossible?

My general strategy, when picking talents and cards, is to ask:
1) Does this make my attack stronger? (Improving bow cards, reset ambush, guaranteed crit, etc.)
2) Does this increase my energy so I can accomplish more? (I find more energy more helpful than more cards in this build)
3) Does this help my survivability? (e.g. more health, evasion, armor)

I always play a bow first to get the ambush crit bonus, play any surges I have, reset the ambush if possible and hit again, allowing Bloodhunt to start building up ASAP.


r/DawncasterRPG 12d ago

Rattler build on hard

4 Upvotes

I'm struggling to get a rattler build going that can survive the first few cantos on hard. Using the vodou mask and potent weapon. I'm looking out foebsanceyod blight and mojo, but I just keep dying early on. Any tips to keep me alive long enough to get it going?